Air Force Chief Sees Decades More of US Wars

In comments today at a spouse and family forum, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein discussed the growing number of airmen being deployed abroad for longer periods of time, saying that this problem is going to continue for decades to come.

The Air Force says they want a 1:2 deployment time, with airmen spending six months abroad then remaining at home for a year afterwards. Gen. Goldfein insisted the Air Force needs to be more flexible on the matter of combat deployments, saying he thinks there are too many individual deployments and not enough group deployments.

Top military brass have regularly talked up long wars in the future as part of their efforts to get more funding for future conflicts. The difference in today’s comments were very specific timetables, and setting out Russia and China as potential targets in those future conflicts.

Author: Jason Ditz

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Of course — happy times are here again, Clintons’ see themselves in the White House, and endless wars are the riches for their special friends. The question is, how is rank and file going to take it — when Trump does not win, and their hopes of coming back from the thousands of holes around the world — evaporate.